SPUG:Re: Korn Shell vs. PD-ksh
Michael R. Wolf
MichaelRunningWolf at att.net
Mon Feb 3 14:03:46 CST 2003
"Richard Anderson" <richard at richard-anderson.org> writes:
[...]
> Running a big, complex ksh script may fail due to memory leaks in
> the Windows libraries that UWin uses. (But we are all using Perl
> for anything longer than 50-100 lines, right?)
Does this imply that Perl doesn't leak? If so, how did it get around
the leaky Windows libraries that Uwin had to (or chose to) use?
> I recommend UWin highly. UWin works on post-95 Windows (Win98,
> Win2K, WinXP, etc.) The installation procedure is a bit odd, but it
> works. If you want the text man pages, be sure to install the groff
> package.
Thanks!
--
Michael R. Wolf
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MichaelRunningWolf at att.net
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